Domestic Release Schedule for 1998

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1998.

See also: Top 1998 Worldwide - Most Popular 1998

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January, 1998
January 2 Oscar and Lucinda (Wide) Fox Searchlight $1,612,957  
 
January 9 Arguing the World (Wide) First Run Features $47,044  
Firestorm (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,123,860  
 
January 16 Live Flesh (Wide) MGM $1,535,558  
Fallen (Wide) Warner Bros. $25,310,938  
Half Baked (Wide) Universal $17,394,881  
Hard Rain (Wide) Paramount Pictures $19,870,567  
Illtown (Wide) Artisan $68,955  
Star Kid (Wide) Trimark $7,015,240  
Bob Dylan Don't Look Back (1967) (Re-release) (Limited, re-release) $27,158  
The Dress (Limited) Attitude Films $16,556  
 
January 21 Fallen Angels (1998) (Limited) Kino International $58,318  
 
January 23 The Gingerbread Man (Wide) Polygram $1,626,593  
Phantoms (Wide) Miramax $5,755,333  
Slappy and the Stinkers (Wide) Sony Pictures $34,488  
Spice World (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,342,592  
Swept From The Sea (Wide) Sony Pictures $283,081  
 
January 30 Caught Up (Wide) Live Film & Mediaworks $6,754,958  
Deceiver (Wide) MGM $699,062  
Deep Rising (Wide) Walt Disney $11,203,026  
Desperate Measures (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,678,274  
Four Days in September (Wide) Miramax $310,724  
Great Expectations (Wide) 20th Century Fox $26,333,044  
Taste of Cherry (Wide) New Line $311,873  
Zero Effect (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,080,693  
It’s in the Water (Limited) $130,928  
Killing Time (Limited) Lionsgate $12,154  
February, 1998
February 6 Blues Brothers 2000 (Wide) Universal $14,089,198  
The Night Flier (Wide) New Line $91,549  
The Replacement Killers (Wide) Sony Pictures $19,035,741  
 
February 13 Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (Wide) Strand Releasing $209,244  
The Borrowers (Wide) Polygram $22,619,589  
Hurricane Streets (Wide) MGM $334,041  
The Only Thrill (Wide) $15,093  
Post Coitum, Animal Triste (Wide) New Yorker $109,596  
Sphere (Wide) Warner Bros. $37,068,294  
The Wedding Singer (Wide) New Line $80,245,725  
 
February 20 Dangerous Beauty (Wide) Warner Bros. $4,553,271  
I Love You … Don't Touch Me! (Wide) MGM $33,598  
Love Walked In (Wide) Sony/TriStar $5,000  
Mrs. Dalloway (Wide) First Look $3,263,672  
Palmetto (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,846,660  
Senseless (Wide) Miramax $13,109,234  
 
February 27 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Wide) Walt Disney $45,779  
Dark City (Wide) New Line $14,435,076  
Kissing a Fool (Wide) Universal $4,100,505  
Krippendorf's Tribe (Wide) Walt Disney $7,571,115  
Kurt and Courtney (Wide) Roxie Releasing $441,808  
The Real Blonde (Wide) Paramount Pictures $247,745  
March, 1998
March 6 The Big Lebowski (Wide) Gramercy $18,718,818  
Hush (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,587,246  
The Leading Man (Wide) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000  
Love and Death on Long Island (Wide) Lionsgate $2,542,264  
Men with Guns (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $742,032  
Twilight (Wide) Paramount Pictures $15,055,091  
U.S. Marshals (Wide) Warner Bros. $57,833,603  
Midaq Alley (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment    
Notes from Underground (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $5,000  
Everest (IMAX) MacGillivray Freeman Films $87,178,599  
 
March 11 Funny Games (Limited) Attitude Films    
 
March 13 Chairman of the Board (Wide) Trimark $306,715  
The Man in the Iron Mask (Wide) MGM $56,968,169  
 
March 20 Fireworks (Wide) $401,540  
Madadayo (Wide) WinStar Cinema $48,856  
Mr. Nice Guy (Wide) New Line $12,716,953  
Niagara, Niagara (Wide) Live Entertainment $168,462  
On Guard (Wide) Empire Pictures $96,750  
Primary Colors (Wide) Universal $39,017,984  
A Rat's Tale (Wide) Legacy Releasing $33,768  
Wide Awake (Wide) Miramax $305,704  
Wild Things (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,795,299  
 
March 25 A Price Above Rubies (Wide) Miramax $1,118,808  
 
March 26 Who the Hell is Juliette? (Limited) Kino International $25,646  
 
March 27 Couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2, Les (Wide) $146,072  
Grease (Wide, re-release) Paramount Pictures $181,813,770 Play
Character (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $713,413  
Meet the Deedles (Wide) Walt Disney $4,356,126  
The Newton Boys (Wide) 20th Century Fox $10,341,093  
No Looking Back (Wide) Gramercy $143,273  
Ride (Wide) Miramax $5,485,295  
The Proposition (Limited) Polygram $1,622,381  
April, 1998
April 3 Artemisia (Wide) Miramax $377,512  
Barney's Great Adventure (Wide) Polygram $11,156,471  
The Butcher Boy (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,822,193  
Heaven's Burning (Wide) $5,000  
Lost In Space (Wide) New Line $69,117,629  
Mercury Rising (Wide) Universal $32,983,332  
The Spanish Prisoner (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $10,162,034  
Warners 75th (Wide) Warner Bros. $498,426  
 
April 8 The Players Club (Wide) New Line $23,047,939  
 
April 10 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (Wide) Sony Pictures $308,082  
The Big One (Wide) Miramax $720,074  
City of Angels (Wide) Warner Bros. $78,750,909  
I Think I Do (Wide) Strand Releasing $278,332  
The Last of the High Kings (Wide) Miramax $2,647  
My Giant (Wide) Sony Pictures $7,985,929  
The Odd Couple II (Wide) Paramount Pictures $18,912,328  
Species 2 (Wide) MGM $19,217,565  
 
April 15 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (Wide) October Films $72,544  
 
April 17 Chinese Box (Wide) Trimark $2,265,328  
Homegrown (Wide) Sony Pictures $215,553  
Major League: Back to the Minors (Wide) Warner Bros. $3,551,208  
Nightwatch (Wide) Miramax $1,278,516  
The Object of my Affection (Wide) 20th Century Fox $29,145,924  
Paulie (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $27,084,499  
Sour Grapes (Wide) Sony Pictures $219,932  
Suicide Kings (Wide) Artisan $1,692,872  
Wild Man Blues (Wide) New Line $483,917  
 
April 22 Deja Vu (Wide) Rainbow Releasing $821,997  
 
April 24 The Big Hit (Wide) Sony Pictures $27,066,941  
In God's Hands (Wide) Sony Pictures $1,431,239  
Music From Another Room (Wide) Orion Pictures $5,000  
Sliding Doors (Wide) Miramax $11,911,200  
Tarzan and the Lost City (Wide) Warner Bros. $2,147,114  
The Truce (Wide) Miramax $71,448  
Two Girls and a Guy (Wide) Fox Searchlight $2,057,193  
May, 1998
May 1 A Friend of Deceased (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $157,437  
Black Dog (Wide) Universal $12,857,351  
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Wide) Sony Pictures $574,838  
Go Now! (Wide) Gramercy $3,657  
He Got Game (Wide) Walt Disney $21,567,853  
Les Miserables (Wide) Sony Pictures $13,887,945  
Shooting Fish (Wide) Fox Searchlight $302,204  
Still Breathing (Wide) October Films $212,267  
Wilde (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,157,701  
 
May 4 Bugs Bunny Film Fest (Wide) $352,397  
 
May 8 Deep Impact (Wide) Paramount Pictures $140,464,664  
The Kingdom, Part II (Wide) October Films $8,294  
Louisa May Alcott's Little Men (Wide) Legacy Releasing $4,092  
Shopping for Fangs (Wide) Margin Films $2,194  
Woo (Wide) New Line $8,064,972  
Africa's Elephant Kingdom (IMAX) Discovery/IMAX $13,485,455  
 
May 15 Bulworth (Wide) 20th Century Fox $26,528,684  
The Climb (Wide) $78,677  
Clockwatchers (Wide) Artistic License $537,948  
The Horse Whisperer (Wide) Walt Disney $75,383,563  
Lawn Dogs (Wide) Strand Releasing $106,292  
Plump Fiction (Wide) Legacy Releasing $37,260  
Quest for Camelot (Wide) Warner Bros. $22,772,500  
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment $19,265  
 
May 19 Godzilla (Wide) Sony Pictures $136,314,294  
 
May 22 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Wide) Universal $10,680,275  
The Opposite of Sex (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $6,367,164  
 
May 27 I Got the Hook-Up! (Wide) Miramax $10,317,779  
 
May 29 Almost Heroes (Wide) Warner Bros. $6,175,688  
Hope Floats (Wide) 20th Century Fox $60,110,313  
Insomnia (Wide) First Run Features $221,173  
The Last Days of Disco (Wide) Gramercy $3,024,198  
Little Boy Blue (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $3,526  
June, 1998
June 5 Beyond Silence (Wide) Miramax $171,334  
Mr. Jealousy (Wide) Lionsgate $287,752  
A Perfect Murder (Wide) Warner Bros. $67,658,331  
The Truman Show (Wide) Paramount Pictures $125,618,201  
Charlie Hoboken (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment    
 
June 12 Can't Hardly Wait (Wide) Sony Pictures $25,358,996  
Cousin Bette (Wide) 20th Century Fox $1,161,063  
Dirty Work (Wide) MGM $10,020,081  
High Art (Wide) October Films $1,835,565  
The Land Girls (Wide) Gramercy $146,083  
Passion in the Desert (Wide) Fine Line $181,083  
Six Days, Seven Nights (Wide) Walt Disney $74,339,294  
 
June 19 Dream for an Insomniac (Wide) Avalanche Releasing $5,000  
Hav Plenty (Wide) Miramax $2,301,777  
Henry Fool (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,334,786  
Mulan (Wide) Walt Disney $120,620,254  
The X Files: Fight the Future (Wide) 20th Century Fox $83,898,313  
 
June 20 Ambushed (Wide) $5,000  
 
June 24 I Went Down (Wide) Artisan $405,297  
 
June 26 Buffalo '66 (Wide) Lionsgate $2,380,606  
Doctor Dolittle (Wide) 20th Century Fox $144,156,605  
Out of Sight (Wide) Universal $37,562,568  
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Wide) Atlantic $84,744  
Smoke Signals (Wide) Miramax $6,719,300  
Gone with the Wind (Limited, re-release) MGM $198,680,470  
 
 
June TBD Talk to Me (Limited) Northern Arts Entertainment    
July, 1998
July 1 Armageddon (Wide) Walt Disney $201,578,182  
Nights of Cabiria (Wide) Rialto Pictures $773,193  
 
July 3 The Beyond (Limited, re-release) $126,387  
Mark Twain's America 3D (IMAX) Sony Pictures Classics $2,992,106  
 
July 10 Hands on a Hardbody (Wide) Legacy Releasing $909,650  
Lethal Weapon 4 (Wide) Warner Bros. $130,444,603  
When I Close My Eyes (Wide) Fine Line    
Madeline (Wide) Sony Pictures $29,858,048  
Pi (Wide) Live Entertainment $3,221,152  
Small Soldiers (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $55,143,823  
Whatever (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $229,750  
 
July 15 There's Something About Mary (Wide) 20th Century Fox $176,484,651  
 
July 16 Mysteries of Egypt (IMAX) Sony Pictures $40,593,286  
 
July 17 The Mask of Zorro (Wide) Sony Pictures $93,828,745  
Polish Wedding (Wide) Fox Searchlight $608,296  
The Thief (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $1,126,115  
Under Heaven (Limited)    
 
July 22 Lolita (Wide) MGM $1,147,784  
The Saltmen of Tibet (Wide) Zeitgeist $146,437  
 
July 24 Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (Wide) Trimark $2,020,700  
Disturbing Behavior (Wide) MGM $17,507,368  
East Palace West Palace (Wide) Strand Releasing $46,470  
Jane Austen's Mafia (Wide) Walt Disney $19,843,795  
Saving Private Ryan (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $216,335,085  
Western (Wide) New Yorker $200,840  
 
July 29 The Negotiator (Wide) Warner Bros. $44,705,766  
The Parent Trap (Wide) Walt Disney $66,308,518  
 
July 31 BASEketball (Wide) Universal $7,042,541  
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Wide) 20th Century Fox $65,705,772  
Full Tilt Boogie (Wide) Miramax    
Governess (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $3,794,031  
Killer Condom (Wide)    
Seventh Heaven (Wide) Zeitgeist $45  
August, 1998
August 5 Halloween: H2O (Wide) Miramax $55,041,738  
 
August 7 First Love, Last Rites (Wide) Strand Releasing $10,876  
Gadjo Dilo (Wide) Lionsgate $673,153  
Safe Men (Wide) October Films $21,210  
Snake Eyes (Wide) Paramount Pictures $55,591,409  
Unmade Beds (Wide) New Yorker $75,752  
 
August 14 Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Wide) Miramax $10,093,523  
The Avengers (Wide) Warner Bros. $23,385,416  
Chambermaid on the Titanic (Wide) MGM $244,465  
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Wide) 20th Century Fox $37,672,944  
Regeneration (Wide) Alliance Atlantis $19,273  
Return to Paradise (Wide) Universal $8,352,677  
Slums of Beverly Hills (Wide) Fox Searchlight $5,502,773  
 
August 19 Your Friends and Neighbors (Wide) Gramercy $4,714,658  
 
August 21 Blade (Wide) New Line $70,141,876  
Dance With Me (Wide) Sony Pictures $15,923,354  
Dead Man on Campus (Wide) Paramount Pictures $15,064,948  
The Eel (Wide) New Yorker $418,192  
Next Stop Wonderland (Wide) Miramax $3,395,581  
Strike (Wide) Miramax $968,506  
Wrongfully Accused (Wide) Warner Bros. $9,642,860  
 
August 28 54 (Wide) Miramax $16,757,163  
I Married a Strange Person (Wide) Lionsgate $203,134  
Like It Is (Wide) First Run Features $94,943  
A Merry War (Wide) First Look $373,830  
See the Sea (Wide) Zeitgeist $49,983  
Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Wide) Warner Bros. $12,506,676  
September, 1998
September 3 The Jew in the Lotus (Wide)    
 
September 4 Firelight (Wide) Walt Disney $784,419  
Knock Off (Wide) Sony Pictures $10,319,915  
Modulations (Wide) Strand Releasing $138,425  
Phoenix (Wide) Trimark $5,000  
 
September 11 Chicago Cab (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $5,000  
Digging to China (Wide) Legacy Releasing $33,000  
Let's Talk About Sex (Wide) Fine Line $373,615  
Out of the Past (Wide) $8,688  
Rounders (Wide) Miramax $22,921,898  
Simon Birch (Wide) Walt Disney $18,253,415  
Without Limits (Wide) Warner Bros. $780,326  
The Cube (Limited) $489,220  
 
September 16 Permanent Midnight (Wide) Artisan $1,171,001  
 
September 18 One True Thing (Wide) Universal $23,337,196  
Rush Hour (Wide) New Line $141,186,864  
Six-String Samurai (Wide) Palm Pictures $134,624  
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (Wide) October Films $1,775,523  
Somewhere in the City (Wide) Artistic License $7,016  
 
September 23 Shadrach (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,167  
 
September 25 The Brandon Teena Story (Wide) Zeitgeist $43,506  
Clay Pigeons (Wide) Gramercy $1,793,359  
The Last Big Thing (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $22,434  
Monument Ave. (Wide) Lionsgate $332,388  
Pecker (Wide) Fine Line $2,281,761  
Ronin (Wide) MGM $41,610,884  
Urban Legend (Wide) Sony Pictures $38,116,707  
October, 1998
October 2 Antz (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $90,757,863  
Dear Jesse (Wide) Cowboy Pictures $15,631  
Hit Me (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $12,491  
The Imposters (Wide) Fox Searchlight $2,197,921  
A Night at the Roxbury (Wide) Paramount Pictures $30,331,165  
The Separation (Wide) Phaedra Cinema $62,626  
Strangeland (Wide) Artisan $631,221  
What Dreams May Come (Wide) Polygram $55,485,043  
The Bicycle Thief (Limited, re-release) $361,712  
 
October 7 Love is the Devil (Wide) Strand Releasing $343,023  
 
October 9 C't'a ton tour Laura Cadieux (Wide) Alliance Atlantis $1,045,907  
The Celebration (Wide) October Films $1,647,780  
Holy Man (Wide) Walt Disney $12,069,719  
The Inheritors (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $196,452  
The Mighty (Wide) Miramax $2,652,246  
One Tough Cop (Wide) Stratosphere Entertainment $1,313,607  
Slam (Wide) Trimark $1,009,819  
 
October 16 The Alarmist (Wide) Lionsgate $55,986  
All the Rage (Wide) $198,553  
Beloved (Wide) Walt Disney $22,852,487  
Bride of Chucky (Wide) Universal $32,404,188  
Happiness (Wide) Good Machine Releasing $2,746,453  
Practical Magic (Wide) Warner Bros. $46,850,558  
Reach the Rock (Wide) Gramercy $4,960  
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Wide) $113,484  
 
October 21 Freeriders (Wide) Warren Miller Entertainment $2,750,064  
 
October 23 Apt Pupil (Wide) Sony/TriStar $8,863,193  
The Cruise (Wide) Artisan $238,434  
Les Boys II (Wide) Lionsgate $5,974,732  
Life Is Beautiful (Wide) Miramax $57,598,247  
Orgazmo (Wide) October Films $582,024  
Pleasantville (Wide) New Line $40,584,421  
Soldier (Wide) Warner Bros. $14,623,082  
Last Night (Limited) Lionsgate $591,165  
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (IMAX) IMAX Films $53,743,249  
 
October 30 American History X (Wide) New Line $6,719,864  
Living Out Loud (Wide) New Line $12,905,901  
Summer of the Monkeys (Wide) $22,500  
Talk of Angels (Wide) Miramax $15,546  
Vampires (Wide) Sony Pictures $20,268,825  
November, 1998
November 4 Belly (Wide) Artisan $9,639,390  
 
November 6 Elizabeth (Wide) Gramercy $30,082,699  
Gods and Monsters (Wide) Lionsgate $6,451,628  
The Siege (Wide) 20th Century Fox $40,934,175  
Velvet Goldmine (Wide) Miramax $1,053,788  
The Waterboy (Wide) Walt Disney $161,491,646  
The Big Chill (Limited, re-release) Sony Pictures $56,077,501  
 
November 13 Dancing at Lughnasa (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $2,361,632  
Hard Core Logo (Wide) Miramax $17,012  
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Wide) Sony Pictures $40,020,622  
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Wide) Walt Disney $12,214,338  
Meet Joe Black (Wide) Universal $44,650,003  
River Red (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $2,197  
Ten Benny (Wide) Artistic License $9,003  
Thursday (Wide) Legacy Releasing $1,971  
Welcome to Woop-Woop (Wide) Goldwyn Entertainment $35,471  
 
November 20 Celebrity (Wide) Miramax $5,078,660  
Central Station (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $5,969,553  
Enemy of the State (Wide) Walt Disney $111,549,836  
The Rugrats Movie (Wide) Paramount Pictures $100,494,685  
Savior (Wide) Lionsgate $12,903  
Storefront Hitchcock (Wide) MGM $3,073  
Sue (Wide) Castle Hill Productions $113,775  
Waking Ned Devine (Wide) 20th Century Fox $24,793,251  
Taxi (Limited)    
A Bug’s Life (Exclusive) Walt Disney $162,798,565  
 
November 24 Cracking Up (Wide)    
 
November 25 Babe: Pig in the City (Wide) Universal $18,319,860  
Home Fries (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,513,979  
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster (Wide) Artisan $9,257,103  
The Mirror (Wide) $69,225  
Steam: The Turkish Bath (Wide) Strand Releasing $655,078  
Very Bad Things (Wide) Polygram $9,949,470  
Vietnam Long Time Coming (Wide) $951  
The Last Emperor (Limited, re-release) Artisan $43,984,987  
The Nutcracker (IMAX) IMAX Films $1,009,291  
 
November 27 A Bug’s Life (Expands Wide) Walt Disney $162,798,565  
December, 1998
December 4 Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (Wide) Artistic License $719  
Hi-Life (Wide) Lionsgate $7,957  
Little Voice (Wide) Miramax $4,595,000  
Psycho (Wide) Universal $21,541,218  
Shattered Image (Wide) Lionsgate $102,523  
Vig (Wide) $5,000  
 
December 11 Didn't Do It For Love (Wide) First Run Features $10,525  
Jack Frost (Wide) Warner Bros. $34,645,374  
The Ogre (Wide) Kino International $49,166  
Red Meat (Wide)    
Shakespeare in Love (Wide) Miramax $100,317,794  
A Simple Plan (Wide) Paramount Pictures $16,316,273  
Star Trek: Insurrection (Wide) Paramount Pictures $70,187,658  
Rushmore (Limited) Walt Disney $17,105,219  
 
December 18 The Emperor's Shadow (Wide) $71,906  
The General (Wide) Sony Pictures Classics $1,256,461  
Outside Ozona (Wide) Sony Pictures $7,394  
The Prince of Egypt (Wide) Dreamworks SKG $101,413,188  
You’ve Got Mail (Wide) Warner Bros. $115,821,495  
 
December 23 The Day of the Beast (Wide) Trimark $15,324  
The Thin Red Line (Wide) 20th Century Fox $36,400,491  
The Theory of Flight (Limited) Fine Line $71,999  
 
December 25 A Civil Action (Wide) Walt Disney $56,709,981  
The Faculty (Wide) Miramax $40,283,321  
Mighty Joe Young (Wide) Walt Disney $50,632,037  
Patch Adams (Wide) Universal $135,014,968  
Stepmom (Wide) Sony/TriStar $91,137,662  
Down in the Delta (Limited) Miramax $5,672,903  
Hurlyburly (Limited) Fine Line $1,798,862  
 
December 28 This is the Sea (Wide) $5,000  
 
December 30 Hilary and Jackie (Wide) October Films $4,874,838  
Affliction (Limited) Lionsgate $6,330,054  
Another Day in Paradise (Limited) Trimark $1,036,818  
The Hi-Lo Country (Limited) Gramercy $166,082  
Playing by Heart (Limited) Miramax $3,956,212